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Efficiency, sustainability, well-being, fast and small work, places where people can work together and interact expressing their creativity and work flexibility in terms of both time and space, a stimulating and innovative project for the food industry that really does taste of the future.

The new Nestlé headquarters, which have just opened in the Milanofiori district of Assago, Nestlé Italiana, Sanpellegrino, Nespresso, Purina, Nestlé Nutrition and Nestlé Health Science, Nestlé Professional and CPW.

DEGW’s interior design project is based on an immediate and neutral concept (wheat, coffee, water, milk, cocoa, powder). Indirect, mediated reference, reinforced by a good dose of custom-designed graphics, which also mirror the general mood of the new Nestlé workplace: where individuality has been replaced by a pleasant sense of widespread participation.

The new headquarters provided the chance to call into question many of the conventions of the past through close teamwork between Nestlé and DEGW, the key to which has always been change and staff well-being.

The concept behind the layout of a standard floor sets the offices in an open space environment, optimising the building’s courtyard plan, alternating with sequences of meeting rooms of different sizes, touchdown stations and project areas, quiet rooms and phone booths for work requiring intense concentration and, at the intersection of the different wings of the property, break areas and thematic hubs acting as functional linch pins and condensers of relations on the various floors.

The large Special Support Areas set alongside these ancillary areas are the real heart of the system: the entrance hall, whose multi-height spaces accommodate a range of reception and communication services; a food promenade on the first floor setting out a sequence of five meeting rooms with truly appetising graphics; a large company canteen on the second floor (approximately 600 seats with a VIP area, terrace, lounge and free flow zone), which is also designed and equipped to encourage interaction and the exchanging of ideas between colleagues and fitted out with special niche-areas for both group or individual work.

Again on the first floor there are a number of innovative work areas, meeting/experimental places open to clients and outside guests, and also more private spaces that have been rethought in a brand-new way: even the internal garden, designed to be a sort of “secret garden” to be used exclusively by users but interacting with the outside environment, can be an ideal workplace for people who enjoy being outdoors.

In 2018 the project has been LEED certified as Gold-level green construction in the category “Commercial Interiors”.